However, Brown, who is running for Shelby County District Attorney, insisted that he should not have been jailed in the first place.

"For God's sake, you challenge the jurisdiction, you challenge the qualifications, you challenge the venue, you challenge the service process, you challenge the summons. That's what a defense lawyer's supposed to do," he said. "There have been a lot of judges in this county, Arkansas and Mississippi who have threatened to find me in contempt and I wasn't doing anything, but some light weight stuff."